Levy Trail Loop

 I walked the Levy Trail Loop this morning in 29:48. This was my first walk in a sweatshirt since last winter. According to weather.com, it is currently 53°F. My hands hurt a little at first. ...The kittens made no appearance.

Levy Trail South

 One of the two Levy Trail kittens showed up today. I saw it as it sprinted across the trail west toward Camp Robinson Rd., as I walked past en route to my house to complete Levy Trail South in 29:46. These cats are based about a block and a half south of 42nd Street (which I use to drive to Kroger). Their apparent play center is at or near a medium-sized tree with three trunks on the east side of the trail. I haven't seen their mother, but their safety area is seemingly a particularly shady spot in overgrown shrubbery grown through a chainlink fence on the edge of someone's backyard.

Levy Trail Loop

I walked the Levy Trail Loop this morning in 32:34. The two new Levy Trail kittens look like squirrels from a distance. That's what I thought they were today until they started fighting. My best guess is they are two weeks old.

Levy Trail South

 I walked Levy Trail South late this morning in 30:27. The $25 step counter I purchased from Amazon said I took 4,023 steps, but that count is somewhat inaccurate. I think I read three articles on published research that estimated a daily walk of 3,800 steps at a minimum of 112 a minute would decrease the risk of dementia by 64%. My recent count of steps a minute has varied from c. 110 to 130. Today, three counts averaged about 120, yet the average steps a minute measured by this gauge were 133. My guess is that I took about 3,700 steps. Who knows. ...I saw the third set of Levy Trail feral kittens this morning. I am tempted to attempt to snare one. ...I walked out to see the kittens at about 5 p.m. They ran off. This could take a while.

Levy Trail South

 I walked Levy Trail South this morning in 30:28.

Red Loop/DFL

 I don't know what the Red Loop record is. Still, I am confident I crushed it this morning with a time of 31:40. Once again, I gleefully write that the University of Michigan and the Ivy League have nothing on Levy regarding cultural diversity. I walked past a black man and a Hispanic woman screaming at each other on their front porch at 6:12 a.m., long before daybreak. We should open Levy College and charge $40,000 a semester. ...The DFL Green Bay Packers defeated the Complete Sellouts, 105.15-75.95. The NFL Packers beat the Chicago Bears, 27-10.

OVERHEARD "Why don't you move, then?"—one Levy scholar to another

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY... Where did the culinary idea of crinkle cut come from, and why did anyone come up with it? With french fries, I might see it, since the crinkle cut offers a potato more surface area to soak up grease. I don't know about carrots. What's the point there? Finally, how do people crinkle cut things? Do they make crinkled knives, and can I get one on Amazon?

Levy Trail North

 I walked Levy Trail North this morning in 34:10.

Levy Trail South

 I walked Levy Trail South at lunchtime today in 35:49.

Levy Trail South

 I walked Levy Trail South this cool morning in 35:39. Dogs won the Mammal Game, 3-0.

Levy Trail Loop

 I walked the Levy Trail Loop late this morning in 35:22.

Red Loop/Green Bay Packers

 The Seattle Tennis Balls defeated the Dever Broncos, 17-16, on Monday Night Football. Theirs was a colorful performance. ...I walked the Levy Loop late this morning in 34:14. ...Though a one-person survey taken several years ago indicated Pam's Boy readership, like readership of everything on earth and I, does not care about anyone's fantasy results but their own. Regardless, if for nothing but my files, the Green Bay Packers won their DFL season-opener against Wreckin Crew, 82.39-71.40. It was the fewest points the Packers have scored in a win since the DFL began in 1997. The only DFL team we would have defeated was the one we played. The NFL Green Bay Packers were defeated by the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7. 

UAPB

 PINE BLUFF—I walked for 44:40 before watching UAPB's probable blowout of North American University, a fifteen-year-old school from the Houston suburb Stafford. North American plays as an independent in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the lowest level of football played by four-year schools. I'll put the over-under points differential at 50 in favor of the home team. ...UAPB won, 76-3. UAPB began football in 1916, and this is the fifth largest points differential since then. In 1936, the school outscored Philander-Smith College of Little Rock, 85-0, for its most lopsided victory. Also noteworthy, Elijah Pitts played for Philander-Smith in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was a borderline star for the Green Bay Packers during the Vince Lombard era. He later was the lead writer for the Trash of the Little Rock Hash House Harriers, known then as Eli Pitts. He was the Trash writer who was shot in the shoulder by a National Guardsman as he made a drink for himself on Bourbon Street. You know, the one who didn't know Hurricane Katrina had struck and thus wondered what all the touristy fuss was over New Orleans, what with all the water everywhere and trees blown all the fuck over the roads. 

Levy/Red Loop

 I walked the Red Loop this morning in 34:10. Yesterday, I walked from my house to the COGIC on the Levy Trail and back on 38th and Orange Streets in 15:48.

I PLAN TO STAB. ...the next adult who acts as if their feelings are hurt when I can't remember their name. This threat will expire when I can no longer remember my own name. Otherwise, I would become similar to those two fucks from Canada.

Hash

 Cassandra "Who the hell is Cassandra" Ticer and her husband Nathan set a 1.8-mile Hash run from their house near Dickey-Stephens Park this afternoon. I was out for 34:34.

Episcopal Collegiate/Arkansas-Pine Bluff

 PINE BLUFF—I walked for a total of 51:46 from Golden Lion Stadium around the UAPB campus before UAPB's football game against Lane College. ...Last evening, I walked for about forty minutes before the Smackover Buckaroo's 8-6 victory over the Episcopal Collegiate Wildcats. Smackover was the hometown of Clyde "Smackover" Scott. Scott won the silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 110-meter hurdles. He was given his nickname while a running back for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. We had an old sports copy editor at the paper named Mike Marino, who grew up in Pennsylvania. He said that, as a teenager, he assumed Scott got his nickname as a player prone to smacking over the line of scrimmage. ...By the way, to hell with the football team. It was worth my trip to watch UAPB's Marching Magical Music Machine of the Mid-South. What a grand halftime show.

Maumelle

I walked for 38:42 near Maumelle High School this evening before I watched Maumelle beat Batesville, 35-0.